“At the beginning of management science in the 20th century, two pillars were emphasized: professional efficiency and practical
skills. The new century emphasizes social maturity
as the most important competence pillar for management subjects (owners, managers, employees) in economic units.”
“The power is located in all of workers of an organization
and in the rate of their
competence. The power
of the organization is in addition to the owners, and is created above all by
the competent managers and employees working in it. The idea that even in the new millennium these people will be
owned by shareholders is simply immoral7.”
A company never belongs exclusively to its owners or shareholders and to enable the employees to speak about their own destiny.
The
classical, view though still persisting on
management as activity
(process, position) and
managers
are given the dominant position. To know the quality and effectiveness of the behavior of the organization
we should know their competence
rate. However, this view is already obsolete and insufficient for the new cognitive
society.
Managerial competence is of both owners10 and employees
and freedom and respect
for the individual, is a must. To
be a competent
owner, an
employee will
have
the
same
importance
as an executive for the organization.
This new vision and value is then expanded for not
just an individual, department or organization but for the municipality, region, state, and that depends on the rate of the competence to create such
value. The growth of an individual is also helpful for the growth of an
organization. “The more competent he will be, the more
useful he will be for the organization. Already
today
and even more in the future, the competence is not given by the function alone. Capability or competence shall be understood as readiness of the management
subject
to control and manage his or her own work and work
of the others so that it results in real
added
value rate (i.e.
set the objectives, implement and evaluate them in a way to
provide the success of the organization.”
"Wherever you work, you are not an employee. You are working for only one employer – yourself
-. Nobody is obliged
to secure your professional
career.
You own it. The key to survival is to
create another value every day9." ( At
the 30th International conference of the Association Management Centre
Europe Association in April 1998, in Vienna, Andrew Crove, the general director of
INTEL)
Every dimension of managerial
competence has two counter-poles
– two extremes, one positive,
useful; the other negative,
practical skills positive is cleverness (mastery). Its negative,
adverse manifestation is hap-handedness (inability).
Professional efficiency
as a manager
dimension is, in a positive meaning of
the word, is wisdom (understanding,
know-how)
and in
the
negative meaning of the word, characterized as
ignorance (stupidity, sophistry).
The positive aspect of social maturity as the most characteristic dimension
of the new millennium is wisdom (capability to live also for others); the negative is
egoism.
a unique
equation (transformation) of
the
philosophy
of
positive
and
negative competence in management.
WISDOM – SANITY – CLEVERNESS ^
GOOD EGOISM – IGNORANCE
– UNABILITY ^ WRONG
Management
in its holistic approach emphasizes that the meaning
of human existence should have a
focus on good, truth, harmony, beauty, trust, humaneness, streaming of man to live
and sacrifice also for others. Why in the today’s world humaneness and wisdom
are on the wane, and egoism (selfishness) predominates? This
needs to be seen with root cause analysis
.
Only those things make sense where one
can create, where he, by means of his work and life, add new value to the
existing ones; in other words, what he has enough force, will and competence for. The world of work and the course of working processes, naturally personifies chaos and is managed by
chance (incidentally). And this fact represents the natural resource
of human productivity.
Man's spirituality, his
wisdom, and in this sense also his life
and work philosophy, is represented through, and is as endless as the universe, because
man
is a part of it. In the future
millennium, the uniqueness, and both the simultaneity
and temporality
of life, should inspire in each owner, manager and
employee the most exalted
relationships to their collaborators. The awareness of the
fact
of annihilation of man in nature and man's short stay in this world should motivate him to such
behaviour.
The ability to perceive, get to know and feel beauty
and consequently also good should play an important
role in the new millennium. This is especially
due to the fact that beauty in the best meaning of the word cannot be bad, as good
cannot be ugly.
The current development of mankind
reassures us that there is no simple recipe
against the devastation of the human soul.
The question echoes from this, why
in today's world, bad prevails over good. The
answer is complicated, but its
economical dimension consists in the non-democratic use of property and ownership relationships. And this is also the answer to the question why
management in the dimension
of competence in the social maturity area is considered to be a philosophy. It is known that people, in whatever working position they occupy, can
be motivated to be competent either by personal interest or wider public interest.
All those holding the view that only
the personal interest can motivate people
to work competently
are in general right that one who wants to survive must
continuously care only about one self. Even, especially
the practically oriented politicians affirm that "people are motivated by private interests and effort to gain power and riches10."
However, there are also other who are not motivated only by their personal interest but also by public affairs. These people usually want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Together with others, they want to contribute
to the creation of something that would serve many people. Their needs far exceed their personal interest and they cover not only their own families but also communities,
institutions, countries, and in certain cases, also the world. Good is in a continuous
fight with the bad, like wisdom with immaturity, sanity with ignorance, cleverness with inability. Both good and
bad are philosophical terms, the same as management in the
position of social maturity dimension
is a philosophy. The
attainments enable management subjects to be professionally efficient; they are the
theory. In the dimension of professional efficiency, management is a science. But
in the dimension of practical skills, management is an art. The
door is open wide in the new millennium
to an
increase in the competence of management. The
aim of education should be to bring predominance
of good over bad.
Every healthy, normal man willing to be educated and being
workable has the potential
to achieve a certain degree of competence in control.
The time will come when the division in the world will be into the educated and uneducated, competetnt and non competent and not
rich and poor.Social maturity
can
be achieved by
education, professional efficiency
by study, and practical skills by training.
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